The Mars discussion is interesting, but ultimately an abstract exercise. One might as well speculate on the chances of all the air molecules in your bedroom randomly migrating to one half of its volume. If humans ever do go to Mars, it won't be done by Americans. The technical challenges are prodigious, but even in aggregate and doubled …
The Mars discussion is interesting, but ultimately an abstract exercise. One might as well speculate on the chances of all the air molecules in your bedroom randomly migrating to one half of its volume.
If humans ever do go to Mars, it won't be done by Americans. The technical challenges are prodigious, but even in aggregate and doubled that is not the limiting constraint. The limiting constraint is our collapsing culture and governance, and the fabric of our society unravelling faster and faster each year.
Project the arc of our national nescience since 1990 or so another decade or two forward and by the earliest conceivable date the technical hurdles to a human Mars mission could in the best case scenario be overcome, Congress will have long since mandated NASA use prayer AI's to guide mission trajectories, and the National Science advisor will have formed Protocols of the Elders of Zion study teams for evidence that George Soros globalists are plotting to build Jewish Space Lasers.
This is a nation where the governing political faction wants to balance the budget, not by raising revenue and/or reducing expenditure, but by banning drag shows.
This is a nation where the top Republican party officials believe demons and Jews secretly control the world.
This is a nation where the governing majority looks at the greatest works of art their culture has created and their only takeaway is that someone made a naughty,; that the only difference between Michelangelo's David and a scrawled sharpie-inked outline of a phallus on a bathroom partition is -- no difference. And for that matter wouldn't know phallus from a bust of Pallas.
This land of exponentially exploding ignorance and idiocy is going to figure out how to get to Mars? Give us a break.
The Chinese, maybe. Not America.
I will say, though, to the extent that sending humans to Mars is a fool's errand, there is a reasonable chance Americans will take it into their heads to want to do it.
The Mars discussion is interesting, but ultimately an abstract exercise. One might as well speculate on the chances of all the air molecules in your bedroom randomly migrating to one half of its volume.
If humans ever do go to Mars, it won't be done by Americans. The technical challenges are prodigious, but even in aggregate and doubled that is not the limiting constraint. The limiting constraint is our collapsing culture and governance, and the fabric of our society unravelling faster and faster each year.
Project the arc of our national nescience since 1990 or so another decade or two forward and by the earliest conceivable date the technical hurdles to a human Mars mission could in the best case scenario be overcome, Congress will have long since mandated NASA use prayer AI's to guide mission trajectories, and the National Science advisor will have formed Protocols of the Elders of Zion study teams for evidence that George Soros globalists are plotting to build Jewish Space Lasers.
This is a nation where the governing political faction wants to balance the budget, not by raising revenue and/or reducing expenditure, but by banning drag shows.
This is a nation where the top Republican party officials believe demons and Jews secretly control the world.
This is a nation where the governing majority looks at the greatest works of art their culture has created and their only takeaway is that someone made a naughty,; that the only difference between Michelangelo's David and a scrawled sharpie-inked outline of a phallus on a bathroom partition is -- no difference. And for that matter wouldn't know phallus from a bust of Pallas.
This land of exponentially exploding ignorance and idiocy is going to figure out how to get to Mars? Give us a break.
The Chinese, maybe. Not America.
I will say, though, to the extent that sending humans to Mars is a fool's errand, there is a reasonable chance Americans will take it into their heads to want to do it.